Who is the entrepreneur Pierre-Edouard Stérin close to the RN?

Pierre-Édouard Stérin. This 50-year-old Norman entrepreneur, 104th richest person in France in the magazine’s ranking Challengeshas been a tax exile in Belgium since the election of François Hollande in 2012. He is a businessman who created the Smartbox gift boxes and the development of the restaurant reservation site “La Fourchette”. For the past year and a half, he has been making a series of forays into the media sector: he tried to buy the publishing house Editis and the magazine Marianne. Put off by press articles claiming that billionaire Pierre-Édouard Stérin had links with the National Rally, the editorial staff ultimately opposed his buying the magazine.

Several LR-RN candidates in the legislative elections are said to come from the “Stérin galaxy”, notably being linked to the Common Good Fund, a philanthropic structure created by the billionaire. Pierre-Édouard Stérin and Otium’s number 2, François Durvye, also bought the Le Pen family property in Rueil-Malmaison in November.